Eligibility story is dead?

I love the way the media enterprises that have never investigated the eligibility story when it was alive now feel compelled to pronounce it dead.

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CNN President Jon Klein sent an e-mail to his staff last week explaining, “This story is dead.” Apparently he felt compelled to make the official statement because one CNN rogue, Lou Dobbs, had recently discovered the fact that Barack Obama had never established his bona fides as a constitutionally eligible president – failing to prove he was a “natural born citizen” as his Republican opponent was forced to do in Senate hearings.

Why was Klein so sure there was nothing to it? His reasoning was very strange indeed – and his logic even more twisted.

It seems CNN researchers contacted the Hawaii Public Health Department about the missing long-form birth certificate – the only document absolutely essential to determining where Obama was actually born. What they were told was stunning.

The long-form birth certificate no longer exists! It was destroyed in 2001 when Hawaii went paperless. Now, what’s shocking about that?